Singing along with third eye blind just now, ivy says "I want something else.." then stops and sternly admonishes herself: "I don't think that's how you ask." I'm hanging it up. This is the final blog entry. Put away the kleenex, you three. You knew it was coming. Tomorrow the future officially begins, for real this time, and blogging is going...

I'm heading back to vegas for the first time since god knows when. Having both jeff shulman and phil ivey at the final table was too good to pass up. Look for me in the crowd holding up a banner: "I NAMED MY KID AFTER PHIL IVEY AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY SIGN."

How's the kool aid.. ...civil liberties groups generally oppose long-term detention, arguing that detainees should be prosecuted or released. Sure, SOME. "Generally" speaking (and I am making air quotes right now) civil liberties groups oppose long-term detention without charges, although they have to "argue" this, which tells you pretty clearly...

(As opposed to life's big mysteries, which were all solved a couple thousand years ago.) If you swore to someone that you just moments ago had witnessed several impossible things, culminating in oh say someone being slain and then rising from the dead, almost anyone would deem you to be crazy - the exceptions mostly to be found in institutions. And...

Yesterday after ivy finished reading me the entirety of "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!" and then made her own fancy paper chain to count down the days remaining to her fourth birthday, I told kathleen "if she doesn't need me to read or you to do crafts, we are officially irrelevant." As they left for the store I gave ivy a hug and said "Good-bye, Ready...

We have a giant bucket of little plastic animals (doesn't everyone?) A recent visitor asked ivy about one of them. "That's an alligator," she said, adding: "alligator is the past tense of crocodile."